Blaud Pills
Item
Title
Blaud Pills
Is Part Of
Special Collections
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Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research
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Description
"The most useful preparation of iron for enriching the blood in anaemia. One, gradually increased, if necessary, to four for a dose, after meals, twice or thrice daily. 'Tabloid' Blaud Pill is also issued in combination with aloin, with arsenic and strycchine, with cascara sagrada, etc. These combinations are of value when alternative and aperients agents, etc. are required in addition to Blaud Pill" (BWC 1925:120).
Access Rights
Currently locked away in Strongroom 3 in the UCT Jagger Library. Prior appointment to the library staff needed in order to view the object. Object should be handled with gloves, and a form signed in order to take any photos of it.
Creator
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
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Date Created
1890
endDate
1940
Source
UCT Special Collections - BC666
Burroughs Wellcome & Co.1925. ‘Tabloid’: brief medical guide for explorers, missionaries, travellers, colonists, planters and others. London: Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Resonances
Walter Floyd
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Chest: a botanical ecology
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medicine
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Blaud Pills
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anaemia
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arsenic
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cascara sagrada
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Type
Object
Contributor
Nina Liebenberg
